Valved catch basin for drains



April 18, 1950 VAN 055 2,504,474

VALVED CATCH BASIN FOR BRAINS Filed March 31, 1948 JNVENTOR. JOHN Vqw O55 rToeA/srs Patented Apr. 18, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VALVED CATCH BASIN FOR DRAINS John Van Oss, Green Bay, Wis.

Application March 31, 1948, Serial No. 18,136

This invention relates to a valved catch basin for a drain.

It is the primary object of the invention to provide an improved catch basin having wider application than any existing catch basin and provided with an opening to receive a surface drain tile and having a valve seated in its outlet pipe, the joints between the outlet pipe and the valve within it being caulked, as are also the joints between the outlet pipe and the catch basin.

It is a further object of the invention to vide a catch basin having an ofl' center outlet surrounded by an annular flange merging with one wall of the catch basin and over which water discharged from the catch basin has to pass to the drain.

It is a further object of the invention to pro-- vide a drain in which the trap may be located at any desired level below the catch basin thereby meeting special conditions of frost and the like and with a minimum of joints requiring caulking. Details of the invention will appear more particularly from the following disclosure.

In the drawings:

a Fig. l is a plan view of a catch basin installation embodying the invention, portions of cover being broken away to expose the interior. Fig. 2 is a view in longitudinal sections through the drain shown in Fig. l.

i Fig. 3 is a view in longitudinal section through a modified embodiment of the invention.

The catch basin 5 is shouldered near its upper margin to receive the usual perforated cover 6. At one side the catch basin is provided with an aperture at l for a drain tile 8 for leading surface water or the like into the catch basin. If no drain tile is required, this opening will be closed with cement when the catch basin is set in cement in the usual way.

The catch basin is provided with a sleeve 9 extending above its bottom in the form of an upstanding annular flange to constitute an outlet well which is off-center, the sleeve flange 9 merging with the side wall of the catch'basin at the side thereof opposite that in which the opening 1 is located. The sleeve 9 contihues below the bottompf the catch basin and is formed in wardly at ill to provide a seat for caulking l! about the drain trap !2. The latter may be integrally provided with a deep seal P-trap at is, Fig. 3.

It will be observed that the sleeve 9 tapers slightly, thus facilitating the wedging of the caulking H into place about the drain trap 12.

8 Claims. (Cl. 182-4) Within the pipe is provided a valve casing [5 which is also frusto-conical, tapering outwardly however, and terminating in an enlarged flange it. This flange is only slightly smaller than the interior of the drain trap l2 and the wall of the valve casing expands upwardly therefrom leaving space within which caulking ll is wedged between the valve casing and the interior surface of the upper end of the drain trap I2.

An annular valve seat member :8 is threaded into the upper end of the valve casing l5 and has a relatively thick wall from which a plurality of segments I9 project upwardly and are mutually spaced to provide slots. A bushing at 2d preferably lines the interior in which the float valve 2! seats when raised by water entering or tending to enter the basin from below. The float valve M is guided in a bridge or strap member 23 spanning the valve seat member 18 and confined in diametrical slots between the upstanding strainer segments I9.

The construction shown in Fig. 3 involves two changes either one of which may be adopted independently and used in the otherwise similar construction of Figs. 1 and 2.

In the Fig. 3 construction a drain pipe extension is used, the deep-seal P-trap i211 havinga' bell iii at its upper end to receive the inserted extension I22, this being in caulked connection with the basin 5 exactly as above described. The, advantage of using the drain pipe extension at i 22 is to locate the trap water below frost if frost is a problem.

The second change involves the substitution of a manually operable valve for the automatic float valve already described. The valve casing I53 has no upstanding strainer segments 19 but it is held in place by caulking H exactly as in the construction of Figs. 1 and 2. However, instead of having a valve seat member threaded therein, it has a plug at I80 provided with an integral hand wrench l8! by means of which it may be screwed into place or unscrewed as desired.

Both devices are extremely simple of installation and in each several caulked joints are eliminated as compared with existing devices of the kind. In each it is also possible to provide for quite a wide variety of installations due to the eccentric location of the outlet. In each case the drain pipe extends into the tapered sleeve 9 of the basin and in each case it is wedged there by the caulking II. In each case the valve casing is or I is held within the end of the drain pipe by interior caulking at [1. In each case it is possible to prevent backwater from entering the basin, one valve being automatic and the other manually operated.

I claim:

1. A catch basin installation comprising the combination with a basin having a discharge sleeve in its bottom, the said sleeve extending materially above th bottom of the catch basin and being eccentrically disposed therein integrally with one of the side walls of the catch basin, of a drain pipe disposed within the sleeve, a valve casing within the upper end of the pipe, and caulking at both sides of the pipe between it and the sleeve and the valve casing respectively.

2. The device of claim 1 in combination with means which extends materially above the. bot.- tom of the basin and has its upper end subdivided by slots to comprise strainer segments.

3. The device of claim 1 in which said valve casing, is; provided with an automatically operable float, valve having a stem, said casing being provided with a, bridgemember in which said stem is, guided.

4. The device; of; claim 1 in which said valve casing is providedwithza manually operable valve plug, provided integral-1y with a manually ena e b e y;-

5. The combination with a catch basin having aewalli and-a bottom, the'bottom being provided with an off-center-outletopening and an integral sleeve surrounding; said.v opening and merging with, one wall of.v the catch, basin and extending below thebottom. of the catch basin, said wall having. an inlet. opening in a wall of the catch basinv opposite the side at which said sleeve is di p ed,

6. In a. device of the character described, a catchbasin having a wall, andI a bottom, said bottom havingI a discharge openin located off center and provided with a surrounding sleeve extending both above and, below the bottom of the catch, basin.v and. tapering downwardly and provided. with, an, inwardly formed marginal flange at its bottom,,in further combination with a, drain pipe, extending; through. said, flange into said; sleeve and caulking packed between said pipe and sleeve, together with a valve casing hav n at its tom an outwar flan saidflane being fittedwithin said pipe and the, space between. said casing and pipe being packed with caulking.

7. In a device of the character described, a

catch basin having a wall and a bottom, said bottom having a discharge opening located off center and provided with a surrounding sleevev extending both above and below the bottom of the catch basin and tapering downwardly and provided with an inwardly formed marginal flange at its bottom, in further combination with a drain pipe extending through said flange into said sleeve and caulking packed between said pipe and sleeve, together with a valve casing having at its bottom an outward flange, said flange being fitted within said pipe and the space between said casing and pipe being packed with caulking, said valve casing being provided with a valve member in screw threaded connection therewith.

8. In a device of the character described, a catch basin having a wall and a bottom, said bottom having a dischar e opening located off center and provided with a surrounding sleeve extending both above and below the bottom of the catch basin and tapering downwardly and. provided with an inwardly formed marginal flange at its bottom, in further combination with a a drain pipe extending through said flange into said sleeve and caulking packed between said pipe and sleeve, together with a valve casing having at its bottom an outward flange, said flange being fitted Within said pipe and the space between said casing and pipe being packed with caulking, said valve casing being provided with a valve member in screw threaded connection therewith, said valve member having upstanding segments constituting a strainer for filterin material overflowing said sleeve and entering the top end of said valve casing.

JOHN VAN OSS.

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